Comprehension Ability: I Forge a Villainous Longevity Family

Chapter 656: Chapter 490: Survival of the Fittest? Seeking Benefits and Avoiding Harms!_2

Sos: "..."

Taking a few steps back, Sos looked at Chen Zhixing with a bit of sympathy.

Sos’s sympathy was met with a helpless smile from Chen Zhixing.

It’s like this, sometimes a woman understands everything, yet she still wants to find an excuse to argue with you. What can you do about it?

If not?

Make her admit that she is stupid and foolish, that something everyone else can see and has accounted for, she was genuinely deceived?

No!

Rather than admitting that, isn’t it better to say everyone was fooled by Chen Zhixing, deceived by this despicable, shameless, vulgar... scum!

But then, what would outsiders think of such a quarrel?

Usually, such arguments happen when no outsiders are present, after all, she wouldn’t want others to know she is being unreasonable.

Why could Bai Yu do this in front of Sos?

Because Bai Yu didn’t consider Sos as ’human’!

...

"Alright, Mr. Chen, I have to say, I really sympathized with you just now. At the same time, I can’t understand why your life form has evolved to its current state, yet you still endure such a life."

"Because I need to maintain my humanity, Sos. We cultivators are not the same as your naturally divine beings. Our life structure, at the beginning, could not accept long baptisms. This structure is both material and spiritual. We can use cultivation to evolve our material existence to higher levels, but we cannot change spiritually. In such a situation, if we do not maintain our spiritual state in this way, it won’t be long before we die from mental collapse."

"So, what you have done before was actually to maintain humanity? Well, Mr. Chen, I suppose this method is also considered a form of spiritual cultivation for you, isn’t it?"

"Not exactly. To be precise, this is only to prevent our mental state from deteriorating, not yet a form of spiritual cultivation."

"Oh? Is that so? If so, why didn’t you create a method of spiritual cultivation? Oh, no, I remember over ten thousand years ago, there were cultivators from the Celestial Profound Realm with Spiritual Techniques. Hmm, could it be that this method is now lost? If so, I could provide some backup theories for you."

"It’s not lost, just a different choice. The method of spiritual cultivation has always existed, it’s just that we don’t want to change."

"Why?"

"Still the previous answer, Sos. We are not Celestial Saints, and we don’t want to become divine. For cultivators like Bai Yu and me, the purpose of cultivation is only to obtain divine power, not to truly become divine, because to live in a state like yours, for us, is a very boring thing."

"So you chose to face death just to avoid boredom? Mr. Chen, your way of thinking is very strange."

"Sos, it’s not me that’s strange, but our differing worldviews that collide and result in many things that seem strange to each other. Just like us Celestial Profound Realm cultivators find it strange why you spend tens of thousands of years mending a broken world."

"No, no, no, Chen, that’s not the same. The Cosmic Realm is where I was born, and my mission from birth was to repair my world. This is a very noble responsibility and an honor that every life form in the Cosmic Realm should take pride in... Moreover, for the sake of survival, we must also repair the Cosmic World, after all, this is our home. What life wouldn’t want to see its home become better and better?"

"Hehe, there are many."

"What?"

"That’s not the point. Hmm, continuing the previous topic, Sos, what you said earlier reflects your divine essence. Since your purpose for existence is to repair the Cosmic World, your life’s meaning is here. But for other life forms in the Cosmic Realm, if they had a choice, do you think they would prefer to continue accompanying you to repair the broken Cosmic Realm or hope to go to another intact world and skip the repair process to enjoy life directly?"

"Certainly the latter, so I created the Watcher Organization. While repairing the world, it also prevents the situation you mentioned from happening."

"Why would their choice differ from yours?"

"Because..." Sos thought for a moment, then said indifferently: "This is what you call human nature. You can abandon eternal life for such a trivial thing, Mr. Chen. I have to say, human nature, to me, is really trivial."

"The only thing that interests you is repairing the Cosmic World. Of course, anything that can make the Cosmic World better will interest you."

"That’s correct." Sos smiled and nodded, with nothing to hide. After all, the reason He appeared in front of Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu was because He found that trading with them could help repair the Cosmic Realm.

"This is our difference. We maintain humanity because we don’t want to become like you."

"I understand." Sos nodded.

Understanding does not mean He can accept it, nor does it mean He will change.

Understanding is merely a claim that He knows the rules.

Divine beings are never the same as clay and wood sculptures. They, too, can think and learn, and have their ways of doing things. They are not fools.

It’s just that becoming divine, for cultivators, is as if becoming a clay and wood statue in a temple, hence the teasing accordingly.

"More importantly, Mr. Chen, please forgive me for bringing it up again, because I am really interested in those who ’do not like their home becoming better’. Could you tell me about them? You know, I need to be wary of such beings appearing in the Cosmic World."

"Of course." Chen Zhixing smiled: "Actually, my statement is not objective. These people actually also wish for their home to become better. It’s just that when such ’improvement’ would weaken their power, they would organize to prevent such changes when faced with choice."

"I can’t understand."

"Then let me put it another way. If there is now a chance to immediately create the envisioned Cosmic Realm, but the price is your immediate death, would you accept it?"

"Of course, I would accept it."

"But they wouldn’t."

"...because of human nature?"

"Yes, because of human nature." Chen Zhixing nodded lightly: "Selfishness is also a form of human expression. Of course, my description is very extreme. Actually, their situation should be more like if letting your cultivation degrade by a level could restore the Cosmic Realm completely."

"They still wouldn’t agree, huh."

"Yes."

"Such life forms should be completely destroyed. They shouldn’t exist, at least not from my perspective."

"I’m sorry, in reality, besides life forms like you born out of a certain rule, when all life in this world faces this rule, 99% will make the same choice as them."

"..."

Sos fell silent.

Not that He couldn’t understand, but after understanding and precisely calculating, the results turned out to be exactly what Chen Zhixing said.

This answer is hard for Him to accept.

To be precise, in the initial calculations, He came up with a very optimistic answer.

According to history, out of the first hundred people, ninety chose to sacrifice, and then they became second-rate.

Then a hundred more were selected, of which eighty chose to sacrifice.

After several such selections.

The genes willing to make such sacrifices basically disappeared from the Cosmic Realm, and those who lived well were those ’selfish’ ones.

And this seems to be an unavoidable choice.

Sos became silent because He discovered this fact.

And His reason for silence was not due to being upset, but because He realized if the situation was indeed as He had calculated, then such a result would be unfavorable for the development of the Cosmic Realm. He was considering whether to reshape the laws of the Cosmic Realm to prevent such a situation....